Retroactive identification as influenza virus of a haemagglutinating agent isolated in Israel in 1971

Lipkind, M.; Malkinson, M.; Shihmanter, E.; Shoham, D.; Akov, Y.

Veterinary Record 107(17): 401

1980


ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4900
PMID: 7456288
Document Number: 166153
A haemagglutinating agent isolated in Israel in 1971 from the brain of turkeys with a respiratory syndrome accompanied by torticollis has now been identified by HI and neuraminidase inhibition tests as an influenza virus, designated A/turkey/Kfar Vitkin, Israel/71 (Hav5 N2). Strains with the same antigenic composition were isolated from turkeys in Canada in 1966 and in UK in 1973.

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